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JACA , a city of northern Spain, in the province of Huesca
Saragossa , on the left bank of the river Aragon, and among the southern slopes of the Pyrenees, 2380 ft. above the sea. Pop. (19oo), 4934. Jaca is an episcopal see, and was formerly the capital of the Aragonese county of Sobrarbe. Its massive Gothic
cathedral
dates
Saragossa to Pau. In August 1904 the French and Spanish governments agreed to supplement this trade
The origin of the city is unknown. The Jaccetani ('IaiKrlravoi) are mentioned as one of the most celebrated of the numerous small tribes inhabiting the basin of the Ebro by Strabo, who adds that their territory was the theatre of the wars which took place in the 1st century B.C. between Sertorius and Pompey. They are probably identical with the Lacetani of Livy (xxi. 6o, 61) and Caesar (B.C. i. 6o). Early in the 8th century Jaca fell into the possession of the Moors, by whose writers it is referred to under the name of Dyaka as one of the chief
great
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